[schooltool] Demographics Rough Draft

[Tom Hoffman]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Ignas Mikalajunas <ignas at pov.lt> wrote:
> These additional fields, we want what kinds of them?
>
> Text, Number, Date, Dropdown?
> Required/Not required?

I'm thinking that we limit it to not-required text fields.

> We want the data in a separate form, or we want to see it in the add
> person form?

It depends on the overall design, whether we put everything on one
form or have several sub-forms/sheets/tabs.

> I guess users can handle the evolution using export/import so if users
> will want to change the type of the attribute, name of the attribute
> or "converge" 2 variables into 1, they will have to export the old
> data, fix up their demographics, fix the data in excel/csv, import it
> back.

I think we will keep it simpler than that.  Like you've got fields
"custom1" through "custom5" which are just text fields like the others
except the admin can give them a separate title.

--Tom

--Tom